"On June 10th it was a year since the armed NATO aggression on Yugoslavia was finished. We all remember the main propaganda slogans that followed military actions against a sovereign country. Firstly, NATO should have stopped the alleged ethnical cleansing in Kosmet. Secondly, they spoke in Brussels about the attacks merely on Yugoslav army objects.

And what really happened? The first lie was ethnical cleansing. Not even the UN and OSCE experts, who represented Spain, Germany, Finland and Byelorussia, nor the ministers of British parliament found any trace of war crimes in Kosmet. Yes, tombs of the murdered were discovered, but those were the guerilla members killed in the armed fights with Yugoslav army and Serbian police.

Belgrade never hid that anti-terrorist operation had to be performed in Kosmet against well-armed and financially-backed-from-abroad extremists. It should be mentioned that Turkish army used the same methods fighting Kurds, but they used even the bombers and army helicopters. Not even the special services in Spain and France fight Basque and Corsican separatists by persuasion. British army in Alster also acted like real army.

The International Committee of the Red Cross received from the ethnic Albanian leaders list with 5 000 names of missing persons in Kosmet from January 1998. It appeared that most of them were on sentence in Serbian prisons due to their terrorist actions. The Red Cross confessed that less than 200 people were actually killed. You will admit that this figure is different from the figures of 50 to 100 thousands victims of the ethnical cleansing which the West spoke about in spring last year.

There is another myth on the purely military character of the NATO attacks. In the secret paper of the US air force military experts from last year, it was stated that altogether 50 Yugoslav tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery weapons were destroyed. However, Yugoslav army is not the same as the rebel troops of Sierra Leon. It is one of the most powerful ones in Europe.

Then what did the much-praised "tomahawk" missiles and laser bombs hit then?

Answering to that question, we have to say goodbye to another NATO myth. The main victim of the aggression became civil population of Yugoslavia, whose democratic rights are great concern of the West nowadays. According to most recent assessments, more than 2 000 people were murdered, and more than 7 000 of innocent people were injured. 422 schools were destroyed i.e. damaged and 48 medical institutions. More than 2.5 millions of people were left without the elementary living conditions.

"NATO led the war against Serbian people", the former Prime Minister of Austria, Malcolm Frazer said in the latest issue of Geneva diplomatic magazine "Geneva diplomatic magazine". As the chief of humanitarian organization "Coeur Australia", he went throughout Yugoslavia. Malcolm Frazer was ascertained that the civil industrial enterprises were demolished, as well as the housing buildings, hotels and refugee camps.

In the letter to the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, the NATO Secretary General, George Robertson admitted that 31 000 missiles with depleted uranium were used in bombing Yugoslavia. In Kosmet, children are still getting killed by the cluster mine explosions. KFOR and UN mission experts admit that there are several thousands of such mines left in the province territory, although they are forbidden by the international law.

It is clear that the uranium mines, which cause radioactive pollution, and the cluster mines cannot be considered precise weapons.

The 78 days NATO aggression on Yugoslavia was actually an attempt of realizing false aims by indecent means.

In today's statement of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs it is stressed that the North Atlantic alliance actions performed a peace process in Kosmet in the frame of political-legal field of the UN. Only the adoption of the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 made possible the determining of concrete orientation for peaceful solution of Kosovo crisis".